Plenty : (Record no. 3712)
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| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
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| LC control number | 2008530549 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780307347336 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0307347338 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call number | 641.3 |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Authors | Smith, Alisa, |
| Dates | 1971- |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Plenty : |
| Subtitle | eating locally on the 100-mile diet / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Press, |
| Date | c2007. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 264 p ; |
| Size | 21 cm. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | The authors describe how they spent a year researching and searching for foods that were locally produced within a 100-mile radius of their home in an effort to promote environmental awareness. |
| SUMMARY | |
| Summary | The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born. The couple's discoveries sometimes shook their resolve. It would be a year without sugar, Cheerios, olive oil, rice, Pizza Pops, beer, and much, much more. Yet local eating has turned out to be a life lesson in pleasures that are always close at hand. They met the revolutionary farmers and modern-day hunter-gatherers who are changing the way we think about food. They got personal with issues ranging from global economics to biodiversity. They called on the wisdom of grandmothers, and immersed themselves in the seasons. They discovered a host of new flavours, from gooseberry wine to sunchokes to turnip sandwiches, foods that they never would have guessed were on their doorstep. The 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted, attracting media and grassroots interest that spanned the globe. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating tells the full story, from the insights to the kitchen disasters, as the authors transform from megamart shoppers to self-sufficient urban pioneers. The 100-Mile Diet is a pathway home for anybody, anywhere. Call me naive, but I never knew that flour would be struck from our 100-Mile Diet. Wheat products are just so ubiquitous, "the staff of life," that I had hazily imagined the stuff must be grown everywhere. But of course: I had never seen a field of wheat anywhere close to Vancouver, and my mental images of late-afternoon light falling on golden fields of grain were all from my childhood on the Canadian prairies. What I was able to find was Anita's Organic Grain & Flour Mill, about 60 miles up the Fraser River valley. I called, and learned that Anita's nearest grain suppliers were at least 800 miles away by road. She sounded sorry for me. Would it be a year until I tasted a pie? --From The 100-Mile Diet From the Hardcover edition. |
| STUDY PROGRAM | |
| Program name | COMM101 |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Diet |
| Form | British Columbia. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Cooking (Natural foods) |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Farm produce |
| Form | British Columbia. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Local foods |
| Form | British Columbia. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Diet |
| Form | British Columbia. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Cooking |
| General | Natural foods. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Heading | Farm produce |
| Form | British Columbia. |
| ADDED ENTRY | |
| Name | MacKinnon, J. B., |
| Dates | 1970- |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://uowd.box.com/s/2lwpx5qklixgbsicccrdjgnje9sdlv73 |
| Public note | Location Map |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2014-09-09 | AMAUK | 641.56309711 SM PL | T0015865 | 2017-01-26 | 8.85 | 2017-01-26 | REGULAR | ||||
| University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 2009-03-10 | AMAUK | 641.56309711 SM PL | T0035629 | 2017-01-26 | 8.99 | 2017-01-26 | REGULAR |